
WHO ARE WE
Progressive Healthcare provides specialized clinical inpatient settings
for those patients needing Long Term Acute Care Hospital service upon discharge
from an acute care hospital. We refer to our hospitals as the “Acute Care
Alternative.” We align with local general acute care facilities and area
physicians as a continuation of a patient’s care who requires the next “hospital
level” of care while transitioning to home, home health care, a skilled nursing
setting, a rehabilitation facility or other post acute care levels of care.
It is our company’s belief that an individualized healthcare plan is the
most important part to a healthy and quick recovery. The majority of the patient
rooms in our hospitals are private rooms. There are Monitored Observation units
in each hospital to provide the best possible care for patients who need an
intensive level of care. Our hospitals are breaking away from the traditional
“hospital“ feeling by integrating interior designs that blend home-like settings
into our clinical environments.
We promote a healing and nurturing environment responding to the medical, physical, psychological and social needs
of our patients and families. We ensure that all regulatory compliance
requirements are met and we go that extra mile in ensuring quality care is
provided by our hospital staff and medical staff.
WHAT IS AN LTAC HOSPITAL
Within the continuum of healthcare, long-term acute care
hospitals (also known as “LTACs”) provide specialized acute care for medically
complex patients who are critically ill; have multi-system complications and/or
failures and require hospitalization. The average a length of stay in an LTAC is
about 25 days or more. The LTAC offers specialized treatment programs and
aggressive clinical and therapeutic intervention on a 24-hour/7-day-a-week
basis. Most of the patients are admitted directly from a short-stay acute care
hospital with respiratory or ventilator-dependent conditions or other complex
medical conditions requiring aggressive and continuous acute care services.
An LTAC is not a nursing home or other lower level of care. Our patients
are acutely ill, and require specialized clinical programs and intensive nursing
intervention.
TYPES OF DIAGNOSIS:
-Chronic Cardiac Disorders
-Neuromuscular/Neurovascular Diseases
-Methicillin-resistant Staph Aureus (MRSA)
-Complex Orthopedic Conditions
-Wound Care Complications
-Multi-systems Organ Failure
-Immuno-suppressed Conditions
-Respiratory Failure
-Dysphasia Management
-Post-operative Complications
-Chronic Nutritional Problems
-Total Parenteral Nutrition(TPN) Issues
Progressive HealthCare Clinical Programs
Medically Complex
-CABG/Cardiothoracic Surgery
-AMI, Angina, CHF
-Cardiac Arrhymias
-Septicemia
-GI Disorders/Hemorrhage
-Diabetes
-Nephrology
Pulmonary Care
-Ventilator Management
-COPD, Respiratory Edema
-Pneumonia,Respiratory Infections
-Weaning Protocols
Wound Care
-Post Surgical Trauma
-Cancer Patients
-Pressure Ulcers
-PVD
-Debridement
Transitional Rehabilitation
-CVA
-Cardiac Rehabilitation
-Pulmonary Rehabilitation
-Degenerative Nervous Systems Disorders
Current Projects
-Progressive Hospital of Fort Wayne:
In September 2006, we began a complete remodel of an existing health care
facility, located in Indiana. This 48 bed hospital is now open and Medicare Accredited.
Contact Progressive Hospital of Fort Wayne at:
Office 260-399-2900 Fax 260-399-2985
2626 Fairfield ave., Fort Wayne, Indiana, 46807
Projected Look
-Progressive Hospital of Merrillville:
In January 2007 we broke ground on a 33,000 square foot, 40 bed facility. This hospital is a completely new
state of the art facility located in Crown Point, Indiana. This hospital opened in June 2008.
Main 219-472-2200 Fax 219-427-2147
9509 Georgia St., Crown Point, Indiana, 46307
Management Team
Progressive Healthcare's management team has extensive experience in the
healthcare industry. Our scope of experience spans executive corporate
management, contract service management, clinical expertise, market analysis to
include building and design services and development of physician partnership
arrangements.
To learn more about our executive team contact:
Herbert Iwer, Chief Executive Officer-hiwer@progressivehealthcareinc.com
Morrie Maple, Corporate Director of Acquisitions-mmaple@progressivehealthcareinc.com
Andrea Iwer, Corprate Executive Director-aiwer@progressivehealthcareinc.com
Betty Whitfield, Chief Financial Officer-bwhitfield@progressivehealthcareinc.com
Laura Gallagher, Corporate Clinical Executive Director-lgallagher@progressivehealthcareinc.com
Employment Opportunities
If you have inquiries on availability of employment,
please contact us at:
Hr@progressivehealthcareinc.com
New Affiliate
Progressive Healthcare is pleased to announce our new affiliates, PROGRESSIVE ACUTE CARE,
LLC.
For more informtion please contact.
Dan Rissing, CEO-djrissing@bellsouth.net
Wayne Thompson, CFO-mailto:wayne_thompson1@hotmail.com
News Releases
If you would like to know more please see our press releases, below.
-Fort Wayne, In.
-Merrillville, In.
-Broadlane
CONTACT US
Email to: Corporate@progressivehealthcareinc.com
Office 843-278-5885 Fax 843-408-0197
1824 First Drive, Charlston, South Carolina 29407
News Releases
Fort Wayen, In.
Released on June 28,
2006
By Ryan Lengerich and Jennifer L. Boen, The New-Sentinel
A South Carolina health-care group wants to convert an abandoned nursing
home south of downtown into a long-term-care hospital, creating jobs and
revitalizing a blighted building.
Progressive HealthCare, Inc. of Johns
Island, S.C., plans to gut and renovate the three-story structure at 2626
Fairfield Ave., and open an acute-care hospital in its place, according to
documents filed Tuesday with the city. The hospital would create more than 80
clinical and nonclinical jobs.
Set to open in March, it would revitalize
the building where Fairfield Village -- formerly Anthony Wayne Healthcare Center
-- closed in November 2001, leaving behind more than 100 workers and 55 nursing
home residents, according to News-Sentinel archived reports.
In all,
$6.3 million in renovations will include a complete overhaul to the 35-year-old
structure's interior to meet hospital safety code standards, and the exterior
will be given a facelift. The grass is cut and bushes trimmed at the vacant
structure directly across from the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, but peeling
paint and some damage to the exterior are clearly visible.
Morris Maple,
corporate director of acquisitions for Progressive HealthCare, did not return
phone calls requesting comment Tuesday.
The Progressive Long Term Acute
Care Hospital of Fort Wayne "will provide acute care to medically complex
patients who require critical care for an extended period of time," according to
the documents. It will offer specialized programs for pulmonary disease,
neurological disorders, musculoskeletal impairments, multiple trauma, acute
infections, wound management and other conditions.
Progressive
HealthCare is requesting a use variance from the Fort Wayne Board of Zoning
Appeals. The board will vote on the project at a public hearing July 27.
If approved, the hospital will be one of only 16 in the state, said Eric
Deckers, spokesman for the Indiana State Department of Health. Select Specialty
Hospital, owned by Select Medical Corp of Mechanicsburg, Pa., is the only other
long-term acute-care hospital in northeast Indiana. It is located in leased
space on the seventh and eighth floors of St. Joseph Hospital, 700 Broadway.
Typical patients in such hospitals include those needing to be weaned
from ventilators, those with neurological conditions requiring hospital-level
care, or those who have multisystem needs such as orthopedic, cardiovascular and
intravenous antibiotic requirements. They may range from accident victims to
post-surgery patients with complications.
Long-term acute-care hospitals
require dual licensure, Deckers said. They must be licensed by Indiana State
Department of Health as a hospital, just as Dupont or Parkview hospitals are.
But in order to receive Medicare reimbursement, which is a significant portion
of payment for care for these kinds of facilities, they must also be licensed as
long-term-care facilities and abide by those state and federal regulations
covering long-term care, as well.
In 2005, Select Specialty Hospital in
Fort Wayne added five beds to increase capacity to 32 beds. At that time,
hospital officials said Select Specialty was averaging about 22 patients at any
one time. One of the new suites in the hospital was designed to accommodate
bariatric surgery patients who may require longer-than-normal hospitalization
due to complications.
However, Ron King, director of provider relations
at Select Specialty in Fort Wayne said the suite had not been used for such
patients.
Select Specialty owns six hospitals in Indiana, King said. The
second-closest long-term acute-care hospital to Fort Wayne is Renaissance
Specialty Hospital in Muncie, which opened in the past two years.
According to the most recent data available from the American Hospital
Association, Select Specialty in Fort Wayne treated 164 Medicare patients in
fiscal year ending June 30, 2005. Patients stayed an average of 34 days, and
total patient revenue for that year was $22.1 million.
In 2003, Taylor
University purchased the Fairfield Avenue building in 2003 to use as student
housing, said Steve Olson, school's vice president for finance and operations.
But the potential costs for renovations and added parking were too high, he
said. Taylor sold the property in October to Midtown Brown LLC for $260,000,
according to the Wayne Township Assessor's office.
Fort
Wayne, In
InsideIndianaBusiness.com
Report
6/28/2006 6:13:31 AM
New Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
Planned For Fort Wayne
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (June 27, 2006) – Progressive
HealthCare, Inc. has announced plans to develop The Progressive Long Term Acute
Care Hospital of Fort Wayne, a long term acute care (LTAC) hospital, in the
former Anthony Wayne Living Center at 2626 Fairfield Avenue in Fort Wayne.
Following renovation costing approximately $6.3 million, the 50-bed
facility will begin operations in March, 2007. The hospital will employ
approximately 80 clinical and non-clinical staff members.
“We are
excited to become part of the overall continuum of care for the community. Our
demand studies show that Fort Wayne can support an additional 50 long term acute
care beds,” said Herb Iwer, corporate CEO of Progressive HealthCare, Inc. “The
hospital will offer a multi-discipline approach to caring for patients admitted
to the hospital. We will make every effort to integrate into this medical
community’s overall continuum of care and build relationships with the medical
staffs and hospital executives of the Lutheran and Parkview systems.”
Progressive HealthCare Hospital of Fort Wayne is designed to provide
acute care to medically complex patients who require critical care for an
extended period of time. Progressive will offer specialized programs for
pulmonary disease, neurological disorders, musculoskeletal impairments, multiple
trauma, acute infections, wound management, end-stage renal disease, cardiac
recovery and many other disorders. The hospital will be licensed as an acute
care hospital in the state of Indiana, will be Medicare-certified and will
accept referrals from all hospitals within the Fort Wayne Metropolitan
Statistical Area (MSA).
“Fort Wayne is once again recognized for
providing a great environment for development and growth of the healthcare
industry,” stated Fort Wayne Mayor Graham Richard. “In addition to the increased
depth of health care, Progressive Hospital will have a positive impact on
housing and business values in the community by creating a thriving business in
a facility on the South Side that has been vacant for two years.”
The
city will consider a Board of Zoning Appeals application and abatement of
property taxes related to the project. More information on Progressive
HealthCare, Inc. is available at www.progressivehealthcareinc.com.
Source: Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance
Broadlane
News and Events
Media Contact: Jim Webb
972.813.7782
jim.webb@broadlane.com
Progressive Healthcare Selects Broadlane for Supply Chain Services
Dallas - Apr. 09, 2007 -Broadlane announced today that Progressive
Healthcare, Inc., Johns Island, South Carolina, has selected Broadlane to
provide an array of supply chain services under an exclusive agreement.
Financial terms were not announced.
Progressive Healthcare, Inc. owns
and operates Long Term Acute Care (LTAC) hospitals. Under the agreement,
Broadlane will provide Progressive Healthcare with its high-powered national
supply chain services for consumable supplies and equipment, pharmaceuticals and
purchased services and technology to help them manage their supply spend.
Progressive Healthcare will be opening three new facilities within the
next 12 months. Each new facility will consume approximately $2.4M dollars
annually in supplies.
As a fast-growing, new company, Progressive
Healthcare had the opportunity to choose any GPO as our supply chain partner,
however Broadlane’s reputation for results and integrity made them the perfect
partner for us,” said Herb Iwer, Progressive Healthcare’s chief executive
officer.
“Our clients come in all sizes," said David C. Ricker,
Broadlane's president and chief operating officer. “While we serve some of the
largest systems in the industry, new companies like Progressive are just as
important to our client base. We plan to grow with them.”
About
Progressive Healthcare
Progressive HealthCare specializes in
providing the finest in Long Term Acute Care (LTAC) hospitals. Their facilities
are referred to as “An Acute Care Alternative.” They work with local general
acute care facilities as a continuation of patient care for those patients
requiring a “hospital level” of care while transitioning to home, home health
care, skilled nursing, rehabilitation facilities, or other post acute care
levels. Based near Charleston South Carolina, their current hospital markets are
Ft Wayne Indiana, Merrillville Indiana, and Dallas Texas.
About
Broadlane
Broadlane is a leading supply chain services company
serving thousands of acute care hospitals, ambulatory care facilities, physician
practices and other healthcare providers throughout the United States.
Broadlane provides comprehensive supply chain services including:
-
High-powered national & custom contracting
- Innovative purchasing,
analytics and reporting
- Deep clinical & operational expertise
-
"High-touch" client service
Broadlane's clients include leading
providers such as Advocate Health Care, Ascension Health, CHRISTUS Health,
Continuum Health Partners, Kaiser Permanente, Kindred Healthcare, New Hanover
Regional Medical Center, Tenet Healthcare, The Health Alliance of Greater
Cincinnati, Universal Health Services, US Oncology, Sisters of Charity of
Leavenworth Health System, UMass Memorial Health Care and William Beaumont
Hospitals.
The company is headquartered in Dallas with offices in
California, New York and Ohio. For more information, visit www.broadlane.com.
Fort Wayne, In
The
News-sentinel
June 14, 2007
The average length of an
inpatient stay in an Indiana hospital is 5.2 days, according to the Indiana
Hospital & Health Association, a fraction of what it was two or three
decades ago. Changes in the Medicare payment system in the 1980s spurred
hospitals to discharge patients sooner - hospitals are not reimbursed for
"extra" days.
"But there were a lot of factors to suggest there's a
level of care that needed to be delivered," that was too costly in a traditional
hospital, said Bob Morr, vice president of the Indiana Hospital and Health
Association. Thus was born the concept of long-term acute-care hospitals, known
in the hospital industry as LTACs, where 25-day stays are the standard.
A new LTAC - Progressive Long-Term Acute Care Hospital of Fort Wayne -
is slated to open in August at 2626 Fairfield Ave., in a former
3,800-square-foot nursing home. It will be the first free-standing long-term
acute-care hospital in the area.
Funding for the 48-bed hospital comes
from the venture capital group Real Estate Investment Trust. Investors have
committed $100 million for building 10 LTACs around the country during the next
few years, said Herb Iwer, chief executive officer of Progressive Healthcare of
John Island, S.C., the developer. REIT owns the property, and Progressive runs
the hospitals.
Northeast Indiana's only other LTAC is the 32-bed Select
Specialty Hospital, owned by Select Medical Corp. of Mechanicsburg, Pa., which
leases space on the seventh floor of St. Joseph Hospital.
Progressive
will have 24 beds on the second and third floors. On the first floor will be
offices, a cafeteria and therapy services. The hospital also will have its own
pharmacy.
Patients who enter an LTAC may have had a massive stroke,
post-surgery complications, head trauma from an accident or other medical
conditions that require the level of care given in a hospital but that are too
complex and require lower nurse-to-patient ratios than are available in a
nursing home.
"Patients are coming to us with multi-system failure or
problems," said Carolyn Gray, the hospital's administrator.
No more than
five patients to a nurse is the standard; the beds on the second floor of the
hospital have a ratio of two to one.
These are patients who are not
medically ready to enter a rehabilitation facility. Some may be in a coma and on
ventilators, but Gray said in her experience at two other LTACS, "Eighty percent
of my patients went home."
"We have a different environment here than in
a traditional hospital," she said. Family can visit at any time. You won't find
the colors and furniture in most hospitals. You won't hear overhead paging;
nurses have pagers with them at all time.
"Here, you get to know the
patients very well. They are like family," Gray said.
Eighty percent of
patients will be on Medicare, Iwer said. Payment is based on the diagnosis, as
it is for a traditional hospital. But an LTAC gets a lower rate than the
traditional hospital, which is why patients can stay longer.
"We are
paid a flat amount based on the (diagnosis)," said Iwer, a pharmacist by
training. "If a patient needs to be here six months, then that's what they'll
get."
Gray said increasing and maintaining patients' strength and
keeping them free from infection are primary goals.
"Some have stage 3
or 4 skin wounds," she said - the most severe levels of bed sores. "Skin
integrity is really high on our priorities," Gray said, noting a woundcare
specialist will be part of the staff. Local doctors can apply for privileges at
the hospital.
Gray said as she has been meeting with area hospitals,
"They're telling us doctors can't wait until we open."
The reception
from the hospital's neighbors has been overwhelmingly positive, Iwer said,
boasting: "This is the best response of any place we've been."
Iwer said
he's hearing the new hospital eases the loss to the neighborhood of the old
Lutheran Hospital, bringing jobs and vitality to the area. About 80 to 100
people will be employed at the hospital when it is fully operational.
In
Indiana, long-term acute-care hospitals require dual licensure, said Eric
Deckers, spokesman for the Indiana State Department of Health. They must be
licensed by the state as a hospital and as a long-term-care facility, abiding by
state and federal regulations governing both.
The original building was
gutted for all new electrical wiring, plumbing and elevators. MSKTD of Fort
Wayne is the architect and general contractor. The hospital will lease
additional parking across the street from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Fort
Wayne.
Iwer also is overseeing the startup of two other Progressive
LTACs, one in Merrillville and the other in Dallas.
The 40-bed
Merrillville facility, which is being built from the ground up, is expected to
open in December.
Hospital details
Address: 2626 Fairfield Ave.
Opens: August
Unique: It will be the first free-standing long-term
acute-care hospital in the area.
Beds: 48
Copyright (c) 2007 The
News-Sentinel
Fort Wayne, In
Created: Friday, June 15, 2007 8:25 AM EDT
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Speedy recovery for former nursing home
Progressive Hospital
will offer long-term, acute-care services
A new long-term, acute-care
hospital is expected to be open for business in August or September.
The
former Anthony Wayne Living Center, south of downtown Fort Wayne near Fairfield
Avenue and Beechwood Circle, has been completely gutted and is being remodeled
into a facility for the longterm care of critically ill patients.
Progressive Hospital of Fort Wayne will have 48 beds in the threestory
facility. All but two of the rooms will be private.
Almost nothing from
the former nursing home was spared except the outside walls, concrete floors and
some interior barrier walls during the construction process.
“Being a
hospital, you can’t have any wooden frames,” said Rich Wismer, of MSKTD &
Associates, the project’s architect. “All the non-load-bearing partitions were
wood.”
Progressive HealthCare Inc., based in Johns Island, S.C., is
building the facility. It has acute-care hospitals in Merrillville and Dallas,
with more planned next year. The company is expected to take possession of the
renovated building in Fort Wayne next month.
Once open, the hospital
will begin its Medicare demonstration period, which lasts six months. During
that time, federal regulators will check to see that Progressive follows correct
procedures for patient care and other practices, said Carolyn Gray, CEO of the
Fort Wayne hospital.
During that time, only one of the two floors with
patient rooms will be used.
Progressive Hospital will specialize in
patients who require critical care for an extended period. It will have programs
for pulmonary disease, neurological disorders, multiple trauma, acute infections
and other disorders.
The hospital will be able to care for burn victims
as well as patients who are in a coma.
The average patient stay is
expected to be 25 days, Gray said.
“This gives people another option to
make sure the patient is moving around the system,” she said.
In
addition to the private rooms, there will be a pharmacy and rehabilitation
center. The rehab program will provide only limited recovery assistance to
patients. A high observation area will allow nurses and other staff to pay
special attention to a bank of four rooms with patients whose conditions require
close monitoring.
The $6.3-million renovation began in December and
still has a long way to go. Contractors on June 12 were adding stone work on the
building’s exterior, as well as working on interior and exterior walls.
When it is ready, the hospital will begin seeking referrals from
doctors, family members and care managers. Gray said company projections show
the number of eligible patients will grow over time, especially as more people
learn about the facility.
“We’re going to start out slow and build our
reputation,” she said.
Several managers already have been hired and ads
will be run to recruit nursing and other staff members, Gray said. When
completely operational, the hospital will have the equivalent of about 120
full-time employees.